Blueandgold

Gaydosh was considered a CFL sure thing at the time...that's why the Bombers tried to trade up to number one.

Hindsight is 50/50, Mulumba wasn't seen as a guy likely to crack an NFL roster at the time.

I'm not giving Brett Smith the ''edge'' over Marve until he at least wins a freaking game. I never thought people would be defending the hapless, pathetic, gongshow, dysfunctional and win less Riders over here.

If we go 5-13 there'll be calls for his firing... If we go 2-8 the rest of the way I don't see any way he keeps his job... or anyone (aside from maybe Spuds )defending him.

I really dislike penalties that don't affect the game.

Exactly. You pass on him for a project in Wauld and then take another project in Morgan. Man Morgan has been absolutely terrible. I don't understand how a Canadian player can be so bad on special teams. If we're starting too many Canadians, why not start Jasper over Hurl?

The interviews during the game are cringe worthy. Absolutely god awful.

With how bad BC & Sask are, anything less than the playoffs is worthy of termination for O'Shea.

Let's just hope we don't give them their first win on Labour Day!

Pretty sure the NFL version you can. That's why I was a little confused. Is there an NFL version? They have the physically unable to perform list, and IR - Designated to return. But nothing like our injured list.

you know what that poll proves... only Bomber and Rider fans are voting... I'm not sure what's more laughable... Elimimian and Bighill combining for only 7% of the vote or Brackenridge getting 37% of votes.... It was the same for the 'best hands' poll. Dressler won over Denmark with S.J. Green getting less than 10% of the vote. SJ Green has awful hands. The fact that him and Bowman were even in that poll was laughable.

Picard followed by Neufeld. Not counting Canadians(just to make it more interesting...Picard, Neufeld, Bucknor, Hurl, JFG are probably the 5 worst), assuming everyone's healthy its actually a lot more difficult. I'd probably go with someone along the lines of Greg Peach in that case.

People here are going to be very surprised about just how good Jasper is. He makes our defense significantly better.

He fills the role that Labbe vacated very nicely.

He's a good young player. I don't see a single reason to avoid signing him.

One of our only Linemen that could block. This is a huge injury. Devin Tyler is just as bad if not worse than Picard and Greaves, I hope they give someone else a shot at that position.

1-game IR counts against the salary cap. If you want to use it for the purpose of stashing players all the power to you.

I'm positive the Riders first win comes on Labour Day.

Sadly, Drew Willy won't be playing anytime soon if at all again this season.

I agree he has improved from terrible to adequate. Still room for improvement at the position though. I see him as not as good as Henoc, but better than Labbe...somewhere in the middle of those two. Better than Labbe but worse than Henoc is quite a range.

That would be a huge improvement for us.

You mean like Kent Austin, Ron Lancaster, Jeff Garcia, Orlando Steinauer, Dave Dickenson, John Hufnagel, Mark Washington, Corey Chamblin... Which one of those guys STARTED as a Head Coach though?

Picard, Greaves/Neufeld and Stoud all need to be replaced immediately. If Goossen isn't good enough to warrant starting over Picard, then why even keep him around? I like Marve and think he'll come out with a strong game against Calgary.

Matt Nichols reminds me of Brohm, while Franklin looks like he has a good future in the league. I'd roll with Franklin at this point if I were the Esks.

Marve gives us a chance to win. I'm actually looking forward to Friday night now.